Mo’ne Davis just isn’t performed enjoying baseball.
The previous Little League phenom who at 13 turned the primary lady to pitch a victory — and a shutout — within the Little League World Collection, shall be one in every of greater than 600 gamers to check out for the Girls’s Skilled Baseball League set to launch subsequent 12 months, the league stated.
Davis, 24, will be part of different ladies’s baseball stars corresponding to Kelsie Whitmore, the primary girl to signal knowledgeable contract with an MLB-partnered league, on the tryouts, which shall be held in Washington, D.C., from Aug. 22-25.
The WPBL is aiming to launch in the summertime of 2026 with six groups and can be the primary U.S. professional league for girls because the All-American Women Skilled Baseball League — depicted within the basic movie “A League of Their Personal” — dissolved in 1954. Subsequent month’s tryouts will decide the 150 gamers who shall be chosen for the league’s inaugural draft in October.
Davis’ rise to stardom got here swiftly in 2014 when she delivered 70 mph fastballs for Philadelphia’s Taney Youth Baseball Affiliation throughout that 12 months’s Little League World Collection.
She turned an on the spot inspiration for followers younger and previous. She appeared on the quilt of Sports activities Illustrated, has her jersey displayed in baseball’s Corridor of Fame and was named Sports activities Child of the Yr by Sports activities Illustrated Youngsters.
Davis graduated from Hampton College in 2023 and has supplied commentary on ESPN for Little League video games.